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• westcoastbestcoast Alum Member

  March 2018 3788 karma

  What school is this? and what specialty were you speaking of? Feel free to PM if you want to keep it confidential
• goingfor99th Free Trial Member

  March 2018 edited March 2018 3072 karma

  Whoops. Just reread the post. Not talking about just classes. :X
• LastLSAT Alum Member

  March 2018 edited April 2018 1028 karma

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  westcoastbestcoast Alum Member

  March 2018 3788 karma

  Hey, I work in healthcare and spoke with the VP General counsel of a medical facility. The first thing she's looking for is where you graduated, not what kind of health law classes you took. Most of the practical training for lawyers happen on the job, through full time positions or internships. Don't worry too much about the concentration. You're biggest competitive advantage for jobs besides 1L grades is where you graduated from
• LastLSAT Alum Member

  March 2018 edited April 2018 1028 karma

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• Leah M B Alum Member ⭐

  March 2018 8392 karma

  There’s also always summers and general work experience. Not sure but do hospitals or other places in healthcare law take on interns or law clerks? I would guess hands-on training would be just as important.

  I haven’t looked into it much, but I know that sometimes there is an option to be a visiting student at a different law school. It’s not transferring, you remain on record with your current school. More similar to an exchange program. Perhaps you could look into a visiting option at a school that has courses you are interested in? See if there might be a chance to spend a semester or year or something in another program and take some additional courses.
• LastLSAT Alum Member

  March 2018 edited April 2018 1028 karma

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• _oshun1_ Alum Member

  March 2018 edited March 2018 3652 karma

  If I was choosing between 2 schools, with no relevant differences (bar pass rate, job placement rate, salary all the same), and I could pay $0 for a school that didnt offer anything in a field I was deadset on going into, or I could pay $50k tuition (total over 3 years) or less for a school that had a strong program in the field I was interested in and placed really well in that field, I might lean toward paying the $50k. I chose kind of an arbitrary number but that's just around the amount of debt I would be comfortable being in.
  On the other hand, speaking from my experience working in mid-law for the past few years, I havent read many attorney resumes in which the classes/internships/clinics they participated in lined up with the field they ended up working in.
  It's kind of hard for me to imagine that there are 0 possible health law internships you could get into while going to that school. Maybe look into health law internships in the region and see what you could do over the summer. Check out other schools which do offer health law internships and maybe contact those firms and see if they accept students from diff schools.